Stayed up late last night.  Shouldn't have, I am dragging pretty hard right now.  Thought I'd be a zombie after lunch, but am pulling through.  Played in the 'Bichi Ba-re' dai-kai today after lunch on the sensei team. It was a little tournament set-up to celebrate the end of 1st-term finals. Not much to 'beach volley', just volleyball but with a big inflatable ball.  My team advancced once but lost 12-14 against team E or something.  I wanted to win, I really did, it is probably a feeling that carried over from the Ultimate tournament this past weekend.   Next time.
    Went to sleep a 4am.  Watched the shuttle Discovery launch live at 3:38am this morning. A nice flawless launch.  The camera on the liquid fuel tank is pretty clutch.  Seeing the different colored plasma around the shuttle was pretty cool.  
   Watched a shuttle launch from Florida via CNN in Miyama on my mountain. 
    Today is a great day to be sleeping.  It's been raining all day.  The nice part about it is that there is thunder and occasionally lightening.   It is pretty rare to hear or see 'kaminari' in these parts.  And then my umbrella just happen to breakapart into to pieces.  $3 piece of shit.